Yet, many said, the odor still seeped into their buildings.
The ventilators' hissing died away, and the odor of burning insulation seeped from the ducts.
Brown-splotched yellowing leaves drooped from sagging branches, and a bitter odor seeped from the neglected orchard.
The air remained hot and still, almost as though it had cooled little over night, and the odor of overcooked biscuits seeped around him.
The lingering odors of illness seeped in from the hall, and the room seemed to generate antiseptic maskers.
Although workers have finished removing hundreds of cat corpses, a foul odor still seeps from the building.
She doesn't want carpeting or a rent increase, and insists the odors also seep through the electrical sockets and crevices in the walls.
A tall, elderly Anglican priest was hiding in the recessed doorway of a closed estanco, a tobacco shop, from which the faint, sweet odors of its wares seeped.
Was it the bitter odor seeping around the writing board he had laid over the battered surface?
A feral odor seeped into the kitchen, over and above the smell of the stew.